List of Publications

BOOKS

Author:

• To Rouse Leviathan. Forthcoming from Hippocampus Press.
• A Course in Demonic Creativity: A Writer’s Guide to the Inner Genius. 2011.
• Dark Awakenings. Mythos Books, 2010.
• Divinations of the Deep. Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Ebook 2011.

Editor:

• Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears. ABC-CLIO, 2017.
• Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. ABC-CLIO, 2015.
• Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in History, Religion, and Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2014.
• Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti. Subterranean Press, 2014. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

SHORT FICTION

• “The Daemonolorum” – In The Starry Wisdom Library, edited by Nate Pedersen, PS Publishing, 2014.
• “Prometheus Possessed” – Dark Faith: Invocations, ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2012
• “Chimeras & Grotesqueries” – Dark Faith, ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Books, May 2010.
• “The New Pauline Corpus” – Cthulhu’s Reign, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW, April 2010.
• “Blackbrain Dwarf” – Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “Desert Places” – Alone on the Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2006.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “Nightmares, Imported and Domestic” (written with Mark McLaughlin) – The HWA Presents: Dark Arts, ed. John Pelan, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “Sailing into Night” (round robin story) – The Evil Entwines, John B. Ford, Rainfall Books, 2005.
• “Unfinished Nightmare” – Dark Lurkers, ed. Paul Melniczek, Double Dragon Books, 2004.
• “A Cherished Place at the Center of His Plans” (written with Mark McLaughlin) – Hell Is Where the Heart Is, Mark McLaughlin, Medium Rare Books, 2003.
• “The Stars Shine Without Me” – Horrorfind, October 2002.
  • Also in In Delirium II, ed. John Everson, Delirium Books, 2007.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• The God of Foulness – The Art of Grimscribe, March 2002.
  • Also at Terror Tales, 2002.
  • Also in Dark Homage series, Book #5, ed. Shane Ryan Staley, Delirium Books, June 2004.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “If It Had Eyes” – Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
• “Judas of the Infinite” – Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
  • Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2002 (German translation).
• “The Devil and One Lump” – Horrorfind, December 2001.
  • Also in The Best of Horrorfind II, ed. Brian Keene, Horrorfind Publications, 2003.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010 (revised and expanded version).
• “The Basement Theater” – Terror Tales, April 2000.
  • Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2000.
  • Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
• “An Abhorrence to All Flesh” – Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999.
  • Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002.
  • Also in Allem Fleisch ein Greuel, eds. Eddie M. Angerhuber and Boris Koch, Medusenblut, 2005 (German translation).
• “Notes of a Mad Copyist” – Thomas Ligotti Online, January 1999.
  • Also in Divinations of the Deep, 2002 (revised and expanded version).
• “Teeth” – Thomas Ligotti Online, 1998.
  • Also in The Children of Cthulhu, ed. John Pelan, Del Rey, 2002.

ESSAYS, PAPERS, and CHAPTERS

• “On the Brink of Evolution” (chapter on fantasy and horror in the 1960s and 1970s) – In The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror, consultant editor S. T. Joshi, Flame Tree Publishing, 2018.
• “Daimon” – In Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures, edited by Joseph Laycock, ABC-CLIO, 2015.
• “Possession and Exorcism in Literature.” – In Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion across Cultures, edited by Joseph Laycock, ABC-CLIO, 2015.
• “Nexus of Nightmares: Fuseli, Sleep Paralysis, and Horror’s Master Image” – Dream Studies, October 31, 2012
• “In Search of Higher Intelligence: The Daemonic Muse(s) of Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson” – Paranthropology Vol. 3, No.4 (October 2012).
  • Also published in Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence, edited by Angela Voss and William Rowlandson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
• “Things That Should Not Be: The Uncanny Convergence of Religion and Horror” – Nameless Vol 1, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2012).
• “Christian Bale” – Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “Dark Knight Returns” – Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “The Avengers (film)” – Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “The Hunger Games (film)” – Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “The Hunger Games (book)” – Pop Culture Universe, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “Neurodelusions or a Doorway in the Brain? The Question of Religious Hardwiring” – World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “Scientism: The Religion of Science” – World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “Upgrading God: The Religious Effects of the Internet Revolution” – World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy, ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• “Religion and Vampires” – Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, ed. S. T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2010.
• “Gods and Monsters, Worms and Fire: A Horrific Reading of Isaiah” – Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “Loathsome Objects: George Romero’s Living Dead Films as Contemplative Tools” – Dark Awakenings, 2010.
• “Perspiration Meets Inspiration or, The Return of the Muse” – Talent Development Resources, March 5, 2010.
• “Lovecraft’s Longing: Part Two” – Art Throb, October 30, 2009.
• “Lovecraft’s Longing: Part One” – Art Throb, October 22, 2009.
• “The Angel and the Demon” – Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares, ed. S.T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2006.
  • Also in Dark Awakenings, 2010 (revised and expanded version).
• “There Is No Grand Scheme: From a Life Journal in Progress” – In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, ed. Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press, 2006.
• “The Master’s Eyes Shining with Secrets: The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Thomas Ligotti” – Thomas Ligotti Online, 2005.
  • Also in Lovecraft Annual #1, October 2007.
• “Media obsession with trivial hurts our nation” – The News-Leader, February 25, 2007.
• “Liminal Terror and Collective Identity in Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Shadow at the Bottom of the World’” – The Art of Grimscribe, 2002.
  • Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.
• “‘Those Sorrows Which Are Sent to Wean Us from the Earth’: The Failed Quest for Enlightenment in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” – Penny Dreadful #14, December 2001.
• “Thomas Ligotti’s Career of Nightmares” – in Terror Tales, April 2000
  • Also at The Art of Grimscribe, 2002.
  • Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.
• “The Transition from Literary Horror to Existential Nightmare in Thomas Ligotti’s ‘Nethescurial'” – Thomas Ligotti Online, April 2000
  • Also in The Thomas Ligotti Reader, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, Wildside Press, 2003.

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

• Review of The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness by Alan Watts, Second Edition, with introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck – New York Journal of Books, July 12, 2013.
• Review of Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History by Richard Smoley (2013) – New York Journal of Books, February 7, 2013
• Review of Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Gothic (2013) – New York Journal of Books, January 22, 2013
• “Count Dracula (BBC)” – Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, ed. S. T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2010
• “Fright Night 1 and 2” – Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture, ed. S. T. Joshi, Greenwood Press, 2010
• “Let the id do the writing’: A Conversation with Nick Mamatas” – The Teeming Brain, July 2009
• “Horror, Dread, and Transcendent Yearning: A Conversation with Kim Paffenroth” – The Teeming Brain, July 2009
• “Mini Collections from Major Talent” (Douglas Smith, Impossibilia and Mark Samuels, Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes) – Dead Reckonings #5, Spring 2009
• “A Conversation with Stephen Jones” – Cemetery Dance #59, December 2008
• “Sometimes You Just Have to Gush” (Stephen Mark Rainey, Other Gods and Michael Shea, The Autopsy and Other Tales) – Dead Reckonings, #4, Fall 2008
• “Dystopia Now” (Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco and Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories) – Dead Reckonings #3, Spring 2008
• Review of Richard Gavin’s Omens – Dead Reckonings #2, Fall 2007
• “Books into Film and Vice Versa” (Tom Piccirilli, The Dead Letters and Tim Waggoner, Darkness Wakes) – Dead Reckonings #1, Spring 2007
• Review of Judy Allen, Unexplained: An Encyclopedia of Curious Phenomena, Strange Superstitions, and Ancient Mysteries – Strange Horizons, November 22, 2006
• “‘A Sense of Charnel Glamour’: An Interview with Mark Samuels” – The Teeming Brain, September 2006
• “‘It’s all a matter of personal pathology’: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti” – The Teeming Brain, July 2006
  • Also in The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 218, Vol. 19, No. 2, October 2006
• “Dreaming the Industrial Future: Simon Logan’s I-O” – Strange Horizons, February 10, 2003
• Review of Alex Severin, For the Love of Blood” – Sinisteria, March 2002
• Review of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones – Sinisteria, March 2002